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A century of admirable work is well outlined by Dr. H. R. Mill in The Record of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830-1930 (published by the Society and by Stanford and Murray,......

In View Of The Financial Crisis In The Commonwealth, Pro-

fessor Edward Shaun's Economic History of Australia (Cam- bridge University Press, 18s.) is timely and serviceable. The author holds the Chair of History and Economics in the......

Anyone Who Knows Switzerland Will Delight In Mr. G. R.

de Beer's engaging and well-illustrated hook on Early Travellers in the. Alps (Sidgwick and Jackson, 10s. 6d.). From the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century the flow......

The Late Mr. A. Hadrian Alleroft Was An Accomplished And

enthusiastic archaeologist who was specially interested in prehistoric earthworks and trackways and loved the South Downs. His intimate knowledge of Sussex is well displayed in......

Probably Few People Know Anything About The Office Of The

King's Remembrancer, so that Sir G. A. Bonner, who, as Senior Master of the Supreme Court (King's Bench), has held the office since 1926, has done well to write its history and......

M. Paul De Cassagnac Has Been Fortunate In A Good

translator (Mr. Guy Knowles), so that in his French Wines (Chatto and Windus, Cis.) the tenuous aroma of his style, like some rare Vouvray which he discuss s, is preserved......

In Mr. Murray's " Wisdom Of The East " Series,

which has already done such yeoman service in promoting a better understanding between East and West—between the old world of thought and the new world of action—Miss Helen M.......